Speaking of...晚安。。。

Here are the vocabulary .txt files for this video lesson, if you want to import them into ZDT or PlecoDict (just right-click the links below and "Save Link As").

ZDT

Pleco (Traditional)
Pleco (Simplified)

yī qiān

一千

Example Sentences

T ChinesePod現在有一千教訓！
S ChinesePod现在有一千教训！

ChinesePod xiànzài yǒu yī qiān jiàoxun！

ChinesePod has one thousand lessons now!

T 他贏了整整一千美元。
S 他赢了整整一千美元。

tā yíng le zhěngzhěng yī qiān Měi yuán.

He won a cool one thousand dollars.

Lessons Related to 一千 yī qiān:

Newbie - Exchanging Money

Elementary - A Very Special Day

Much appreciation for everyone's hard work, dedication, and knowledge.

When you roll over the Translation (roll over) button, the text "calligraphy" should popup.  I'm not sure why, but it might not work in all browsers.  What browser are you using?

Anyone else having this problem?

If you are been with wise man, it's like walking in the very humidity environment of fog weather, even you have dry cloths on, you get moisturizing.

If you are been with not wise man, it's like sitting in the bathroom which is polluted environment, even you have clean cloths on you are breathing in the bad air!

Meaning behind the words:  Be with good people that you can benefit with, stay away from bad people who can damage you.

Maybe instead of a computer science degree, you need a degree in rocket science :)  Sorry, bad joke I know.

Is there a similar phrase in Chinese?

;)

If a lesson (within a lesson set) is marked as studied, it is removed from the lesson set.  That makes sense if the lesson set is private, but if it is a shared lesson set, then it's bad for others who could benefit from that lesson.

Unless, the studied lesson is only removed from the creator's set and stays in the shared set for everyone else to see (in that case, I'd be impressed).  Would you please either confirm that or fix it so that studied lessons aren't removed from the shared set?  Thanks!

chanelle77, you're welcome, I'm glad it helped.  I see you created a nice "Office" set...one of my favorite series!

And thanks bababarwan, your appreciation is always appreciated :)

guóqìngrì

T : 國慶日

S : 国庆日

Example Sentences

T 十月一日是“中國國慶日”和“華裔傳統日”。
S 十月一日是“中国国庆日”和“华裔传统日”。

shíyuè yī rì shì “zhōngguó guóqìngrì” hé “huáyì chuántǒng rì."

October 1 is “Chinese National Day” and “Overseas Chinese Day."

T 在這金風送爽的日子裡, 我們迎來了國慶日。
S 在这金风送爽的日子里, 我们迎来了国庆日。

zài zhè jīnfēng sòngshuǎng de rìzi lǐ , wǒmen yíngláile guóqìngrì.

As autumn approaches, we are going to celebrate National Day.

Lessons Related to 国庆日 guóqìngrì:

None

I don't think there's anything disrespectful about a lesson on the more specific subject of morning sickness...it's a natural fact of pregnancy in many women.  And it's another testiment to CPod's courage in creating real life lessons (like the lessons on tampons, clogged toilets, buying condoms, etc.).

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P.S.  If you search the word "baby" in the search field at the top banner, you'll get a good list of lessons on babies.  Not specific to pregnancy, though there is a DA on post-pregnancy in China.

Actually, these would make a nice lesson set :)

1.  Go to your Me page.

2.  In your My Archive box on the right side, click on Manage Archive.

3.  Next to the Show: All Lessons  奥运会 Olympics  Jokes and Riddles pulldown menu, click on [Edit Labels].

4.  At the bottom of the page, Create a new label:

5.  Click the icon next to the label you just created.  Enter the information.

6.  Go back to Manage Archive (from step 2), and add lessons to your new set.

There may be a simpler way to do it, but that's the only way I know how.

It'd also be nice if there were a direct link to create sets, from the Lesson Sets page.

...and some interesting Mandarin-related trivia about the movie, from IMBD:

"Crouching tiger hidden dragon" is a quote from Chinese mythology. It refers to hiding your strength from others; advice which is followed too well by the characters in the film.

Michelle Yeoh did not speak Mandarin, and the script was presented to her phonetically with help from Mandarin-speaking crew members - her Malaysian accent can be heard throughout. Yun-Fat Chow did speak Mandarin (his first language is Cantonese) but native Mandarin speakers thought his accent strained and overdone.

Ziyi Zhang studied calligraphy for several months along with her other training for the movie.